Bihar headmaster dies, 3 teachers hurt in head-on collision between auto, tanker

SHO Manish Kumar attributed the head-on collision between the oil tanker and the autorickshaw to dense fog in the area

BETTIAH: A headmaster of a government school was killed and three teachers were among the injured when an autorickshaw they were travelling in collided head-on with an oil tanker near Madhubani Ghat in East Champaran district on Wednesday, police said.

AcPolice identified the deceased as Naresh Kumar, a 55-year-old headmaster of the Rajkiya Utkramit Madhya Vidyalaya at Bhelwa (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Manish Kumar, station house officer (SHO), Mufassil police station said the incident took near Madhubani Ghat when five people including the driver and the teachers of two government schools were on their way to Bhelwa in the district’s Madhuban block, about 35 km from district headquarters Motihari.

Kumar attributed the head-on collision to low visibility due to dense fog in the area.

Kumar said the headmaster, Naresh Kumar, 55, died on the spot while three teachers and the driver were admitted to the hospital after the head-on collision with the oil tanker.

The headmaster was posted at Rajkiya Utkramit Madhya Vidyalaya at Bhelwa. The injured teachers have been identified by the police as Sushma Patel and Nahid Kamar of Rajkiya Utkramit Madhya Vidyalaya and Anita Kumari, a teacher attached with the middle school at Bhelwa.

Police said the driver of the vehicle has been arrested and the deceased’s body has been handed over to the family after conducting a postmortem.